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According to a Jewish mystic school, Jesus was a thief or acted like a thief, for he clearly said, “Behold, I come like a thief in the night.” (“Behold, I move like a thief in the night”.) As a result of his activities, he became a wanted man and turned an elusive fugitive. (“Birds have nest, foxes have holes but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”) read more

How the Ark of the Covenant got to Ethiopia
by Lesley Downer
Special To The Japan Times

Jun 30, 2013
Article history
Online: Jun 30, 2013

God’s will: The tale behind this picture in the Ethnological Museum in Addis Ababa tells how it was that Menelik I, son of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, came to return from a visit to Jerusalem with the original Ten Commandments on tablets of stone in a chest. read more

The following article originally appeared in the February 2002 issue of HIGH TIMES Magazine

Marley knew the drill – in Jamaica, at the height of his success, when music and politics were still one, before the fog of censorship rolled into the island, old wounds were opened by a wave of destabilization politics. Stories appeared in the local, regional and international press downsizing the achievements of the quasi-socialist Jamaican government under Prime Minister Michael Manley.
In the late 1970s, the island was flooded with cheap guns, heroin, cocaine, right-wing propaganda, death squad rule and, as Grenada’s Prime Minister Maurice Bishop described it three years later, the CIA’s “pernicious attempts [to] wreck the economy.”read more

The York rite masonic knights of England caught a fright last night when the shinning stones from heavens the earthlings call meteors entered into the airspace and territories of England and Wales.read more

RETURNING to Africa, I will focus on three Sub-Saharan cultures, in which the bright star Sirius served as a timekeeper—the Nubian Kingdom of Kush (or Cush), the Borana of Kenya and Ethiopia and the Serer of the Senegambia region in Western Africa.read more

It looks harmless enough – white, 8cm (3in) long and about the width of a child’s finger – but the cigarette is vilified like no other product. Who invented it and how much responsibility does he bear for the countless deaths it has caused?read more

A secret militia of armed black men ready to defend themselves in those white-supremacy hey days of the 1950s and 1960s.

Does it sound fantastic?

But this is true history. The civil right movement was not won on a platter of gold. It did not come about due to the inherent goodness of the so-called white political class who engineered the oppression of black people in the first place.read more